#if i'm being honest i got into kh first--i've pretty much loved kh my whole life--so if i had to choose i'd pick kh over it

[oveliagirlhaditright]

Also:

William Afton's ending in Five Nights at Freddy's> Xehanort's ending in Kingdom Hearts

Why am I making this comparison? Because the FNAF and KH franchises have quite a few things in common, and one of these things are just how similar their main series villains are.

I'll take William Afton's ghost, in his animatronic suite, being burnt alive as his old friend Henry Emily tells him the deepest part of Hell has opened up to welcome him, so don't keep the Devil waiting over Xehanort getting to pretty much go to Kingdom Hearts heaven with his best friend, who he'd murdered, after he had just murdered Kairi any day.

Both of these characters are child murderers, essentially (I say "essentially," because I know someone will argue that Xehanort leading Ven to the point where his heart was shattered, and he became comatose for a decade+--and would have been much worse off if Sora hadn't helped him--isn't actually murder. But this is a Disney series rated E10+. I imagine they can only do so much. Plus, when he was causing worlds to get blown up in KHI, I feel like those people were dead. And, no: the fact that Sora was able to bring these worlds--and the people--back at the end of the game doesn't make it better), and Xehanort deserved something akin to what William Afton got.

"Oh, but we've learned now that Xehanort had good intentions and he had a sad past."

I don't care! His "good intentions" excuse nothing with the actions he took to get there! And William Afton probably killed Henry Emily's daughter because he blamed him for his own son's death (so he also had a "sad past")... and while you may understand that logic, does it excuse that or anything else he's done? No.

[mcalhenwrites]

I believe I've narrowed down some of the reasons KHUX charmed me more than most other KH games. I went through an unusual chain of thoughts to reach this conclusion. It started with finding out Nomura apparently made some comment at a concert (last night?) that suggested something had happened with KH last year. No idea what kind of news it is, but I saw some speculation that it has to do with the replacement of Cloud's JP VA. My brain wandered into thinking about how KH4 and FF7R would both benefit from the inclusion of Cloud in the KH series. It was a sore point for many fans when KH3 didn't include any FF content whatsoever (until Re:Mind, and even then, we didn't get Cloud). From a business standpoint, I can see bringing Cloud and other FF characters into the game as a good way to get new KH/Disney fans into FF7R and bring KH/FF fans back into the fold (or keep them interested). It worked pretty well for fandom back in the days when we had KH2, Crisis Core, Advent Children, etc. :) Anyway, I thought about how much my favorite element of KH is not the Disney worlds or the Final Fantasy cameos at all, even though both have their charm at times. (I could use a little less Disney saturation, if I'm honest, and I prefer it in terms of places like Traverse Town, rather than retelling Disney movies.) What I love is the original content made for KH specifically. I say "KHUX" but I really mean everything related to Chi and the mobile games. Yes, we went to Agrabah a thousand times (do we remember anything but sand?), but the real passion was every Daybreak Town story update. It's also telling that fandom prefers the last half of the story to the first half, where those updates are more focused on Daybreak issues, and Wreck-It-Ralph stuff actually overlaps despite also being a retelling of the first movie. Having a focus on a large cast of original KH characters that we see often, interact with often, and coming home to Daybreak Town... I think that was far more enjoyable. I wonder how many people think fondly of Twilight Town and feel disappointed we didn't spend much time there in KH3? How many people miss Traverse Town? How many people were super interested in exploring a larger map of Scala ad Caelum when it opened up in Re:Mind? I think that's also what generated so much interest in Dark Road: we had tons of original characters. Even though we didn't get much time with them, and I find that harmed some of my own enjoyment of the story, sadly. KHUX definitely had more focus on the people of Daybreak Town, and you got to meet some along the way. We were even charmed by those we met in passing, somehow. KH's original content is perhaps its strongest point for me! The flavors of Disney and FF mixed together with that original artistry is perhaps the most fun! Daybreak had the lux lighthouse, the shopkeeper moogle with his lil Foreteller robes, the Chirithies with the booties, etc. It also has a fascinating story! But that story involves Daybreak and its residents, so I think that makes it all the more intriguing and easy to invest in. Not sure this is making any sense. It's just... yeah. That's why I love this mobile game, even though I dislike the gambling aspect of gacha immensely. I find myself hopeful upon hearing KH4 will have Quadratum as its main focus of events and the place Sora stays for a while. I know Disney's a huge reason why we have such distinct separations in the series than we used to - the whole summons thing in KH3 they had to work around, shutting down Nomura's ideas for Frozen, etc. It's disappointing.

[my1stgirlfriendturnedintothemoon]

Writing is so weird for me to be so honest

Like I've been writing for as long as I can remember, fanfic shit before I even knew what fanfic was, me and my friend Sarah used to tell each other stories about our HP self insert OCs in like 5th grade. I have a whole plastic storage tub of notebooks filled with random fanfic and original writing going back to middle school. I'm 29. Some of those notebooks are old enough to vote.

And I've never finished anything lmao. Even stuff where I'm like "this is a oneshot!" I never considered really finished, because there's always some other connected idea.

Anyways I haven't shared any of my writing outside of like, posting things here on tumblr that I know only 3 specific people will read, since like. Before I joined the army??? I think?? Back when I was still using ff net lmao and it was like old Naruto and KH stuff and the one Yume Nikki fic I still wish I had finished, so like 8 years I think.

I hadn't even really been writing much at all this year, outside of a really self-indulgent Warden Surana/Warden Carver Hawke fic that never left my phone notes and will never see daylight bc it's just for me. And then I started replaying FE:A in July and realized I wanted to write about Inigo and Gerome, and I did it! I fuckin opened up my neglected AO3 and I spit out two chapters, and like 300 people read my story and I lost my mind! Three Hundred People! More than my damn high school graduating class. I never in my life would have thought 300 people would want to read my writing lmao

And then of course FE3H dropped and I was like. This is a new fandom, there's not a lot of content out for the ship I want to see, I have a small idea of something I would like to read, I should write it. I'm going to cook this food because the fandom is hungry. And my small idea wound up being a fucking 5k fic, my first smut fic ever, and today it got its hundredth bookmark. 100 fucking people read and bookmarked my horny fic in just one month. Two days after I posted that, I spit out a comedy fic that is currently THREE SHORT of FIVE HUNDRED kudos!!!! Five (5) hundred!!! Like, I'm Math Lady Meme over here trying to imagine 500 different individuals reading and enjoying something I wrote. That is TWICE my graduating class.

So of course, not satisfied with what I had produced, I went out and wrote a 6k fic of a rare pair that was basically entirely smut and the start of a series, because my brain is 100% on Clown Hours, and then made the second part a complete left-field crackpair, and people. Still love it. No one has come to end my life, no one has come with the torches my LJ and FFnet childhood promised. Instead they are praising me and I appreciate it but I still feel like a huge fool lmao!!

Like I'm so scared of negative feedback that I have literally stopped myself from writing things or sharing things for years, and in just one month of sharing things I have gotten so much positive response its overwhelming. I've seen my fics mentioned twice now in the wild while scrolling Twitter, by complete strangers. I bit the bullet and recced one of my fic to someone asking for my rare pair and people like it! I am pretty sure my first smut fic spawned a gift fic for someone else who commented they were interested in a rare OT3 I hinted at!

Anyways I've spent the last week alternately rereading everything I've written this month and going "fuck what the hell this is bile" or feeling like the Palpatine "Unlimited Power" gif even though this is the most attention and 'success' I've ever known in a fandom space, so. This is literally the most productive I've been with writing in years, I've put up 20k words on AO3 since the end of July and I still have like. 6 chapters of this story finished and waiting to be posted if I can just get the damn 2nd chapter out of the way and one of them, all by itself, is 4k. I've been writing like crazy lmao.

This was kind of a ramble but I've been feeling bad about my writing because it's not like some other people's and that's stupid, I may not be writing as much or in the same way but I'm doing numbers for the first time and I should be proud of that.

Over 10k hits I'm gonna shit!!!

Anyways I guess, like. Don't be stupid like me lmao and think no one wants to hear your idea or read your fic, or feel bad if someone else has already "done it", because no one can write it the way you will and there's always going to be someone who is starving for more of that content. I personally don't feel like my stories are that good or even original, but apparently people like them lmao! Share your stuff! You may be surprised.